Well, it’s not a disk space issue. Something is clearly wrong on a system level though… ipk isn’t working, vi isn’t working… very little appears to be working.

Maybe if we figure out what’s making one thing not work, we’ll get to the bottom of all of it.

As far as the vi thing not working, it seems like it must be either missing termcap/terminfo stuff, or your TERM variable set incorrectly.

Could try doing “export TERM=vt220”, and seeing if vi works then. Also could try doing an “ipkg update; ipkg install nano”, on the grounds that that should pull in ncurses, ncursesw, and the necessary terminfo stuff.